President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the N10.59 trillion 2020 appropriation bill into law. The president signed the budget document into law on Tuesday afternoon.

“It is my pleasant duty, today, on my 77th birthday, to sign the 2020 Appropriation Bill into law. I’m pleased that the National Assembly has expeditiously passed this Bill. Our Federal Budget is now restored to a January-December implementation cycle”, President Buhari disclosed on Twitter.

It is my pleasant duty, today, on my 77th birthday, to sign the 2020 Appropriation Bill into law. I’m pleased that the National Assembly has expeditiously passed this Bill. Our Federal Budget is now restored to a January-December implementation cycle.

— Muhammadu Buhari (@MBuhari) December 17, 2019

Thelagostimes recalls that the budget was increased by N260 billion as against the N10.33 trillion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari to the joint session of the National Assembly.